Session 2 Workshops
1:30pm-3:00pm
1:30pm-3:00pm (Session #2)
Poetry as Music without the Melody:
What Makes a Poem a Poem if it doesn't Rhyme
Perie Longo, PhD, LMFT, PTR
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Poetry reading and writing can be a dynamic force in helping access and express emotion for clients who have never written poetry. This experiential workshop will offer poems to demonstrate how the natural rhythm of language rather than rhyme is what “makes” a poem, focused on repetition of sounds, words and phrases, as well as image, simile and metaphor to free our songs within. Come prepared to write.
PRESENTER: Perie Longo, PhD, LMFT and Registered Poetry Therapist (PTR) conducts poetry therapy groups for Sanctuary Center of Santa Barbara for the mentally ill, and Hospice of Santa Barbara. She is a past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy, a Mentor/Supervisor for those in training, and the past Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara (2007-09).
1:30pm-3:00pm (Session #2)
Hey, That's Funny!
Using Applied Humor as a Tool for Connection
Stephanie Wichmann, LICSW, RDT, Actor/Comedian
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Humor is a part of our everyday experience. Humor also is an adaptive response to pain and suffering. This training will help us to look at humor in theory and practice, helping us as artists, educators and therapists apply humor as a tool for growth and change.
PRESENTER: Stephanie Wichmann is a clinical social worker, drama therapist, consultant, and actor/comedian. She has primarily been focused on health care and school settings working with children, youth, adults and older adults. She is passionate about assisting clients from a holistic and strengths-based perspective. For the past 15 years she has been utilizing her professional theater and comedy background, as a means of individual/community engagement, therapy, and social change. She is passionate about the power of humor and healing, and cultivating resiliency through the arts.
1:30pm-3:00pm (Session #2)
Music and the Improvisational Model to
Connect with Clients on the Autism Spectrum
John Mews, MA, MFTI, BMT
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The workshop will explore and demonstrate techniques that use improvisation and music to ensure that goals and objectives can be achieved as quickly and effectively as possible. Children with special needs see themselves as being different, and feel stressed and overwhelmed by everyone trying to "fix" them. Families with children who have special needs are often stressed, broken and feel isolated. Supporting these families is critically important to the success and well-being of the child. Practitioners will learn more about music therapy and its many benefits. Workshop attendants will learn tips on how to make life a little easier with music.
PRESENTER: John Mews, MA, MFTI, BMT, is the Director and Founder of Mewsic Moves. He has over a decade experience working with families of children with special needs. In his private practice he builds on the amazing power of music to transform lives and relationships for the better. His approach is to build confidence early on by leveraging each child's individual gifts and strengths.
1:30pm-3:00pm (Session #2)
The Warrior Self: Recognize Inner Strength and Value Innate Wisdom
Aazam Irilian, MA, Art Educator/Artist
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This experiential workshop combines visualization, creative writing, and expressive arts as a tool of personal self-awareness and creative exploration. Engaged in therapeutic imagery, poetry writing, and mask making, participants are guided through a process of self-discovery and authentic self-expression, leading to developing a positive self-image with increased confidence. These tools can be implemented in a myriad of milieus from marginalized youth such as LGBT populations, to women's groups supporting self-care, to those who simply seek a deepening of personal expression in artistry.
PRESENTER: Aazam Irilian is a professional artist who has exhibited her paintings in numerous galleries. She is also an art educator, healer and coach with a Masters degree in Art Education as well as being certified both as a practitioner in Therapeutic Imagery and in Social Emotional Arts (SEA). Aazam has been sharing her passion for the expressive arts with students of all ages and diverse populations for close to thirty years. In her workshops and private sessions, Aazam uses visualization, expressive arts and creative writing as tools for personal healing.
1:30pm-3:00pm (Session #2)
Using Guided Visualization, Embodiment, and Drama
to Identify and Install Empowering Resources for Clients
Daniel Doyle, LMFT, LPCC, RDT
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This workshop will focus on client resourcing. Participants will be led through Guided Visualization, Embodiment and Drama Therapy Exercises that can be used with clients to improve emotional regulation, affect tolerance, and beliefs about self worth. Concepts from Mindfulness Practice and EMDR Therapy will be included in the exercises.
PRESENTER: Daniel Doyle is a Registered Drama Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and EMDR Therapist in private practice in South Pasadena, CA. He holds a BFA in Drama from New York University, an M.A. in Psychology (emphasis in Drama Therapy), from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and a Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.